Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.